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and seeing cities from space - what we can learn about other countries from high above earth. tonight pressure is building to stop the violence in gaza and israel. secretary of state john kerry met with leaders in the westpac and israel. diplomats focussing on a humanitarian truce. the leader of hamas called for gaza's borders to be open to end 7 years of blockade by israel and egypt. all over the world demonstrations for peace. in paris thousands marched in support of gaza. riot police were deployed about a rise in anti-semitic fines. the conflict is causing disruptions at the largest airport. the f.a.a. extending a ban on

airports flying to and from tel aviv. lisa stark has more from washington. >> john, the f.a.a. continues to evaluate the security situation in israel. the government has provided the agency with what it calls significant new information, which is being evaluated to try to feel if the f.a.a. is safe and secure for passengers to land. in the state department deputy spokeswoman said the f.a.a. made its decision in consultation with the intelligence community. >> a rocket landed close to the airport. if you were a passenger landing or taking off, you would be nervous. iron dome has been successful. but the safety of americans is a top priority. >> reporter: there's no evidence that hamas has the anti-aircraft missile that apparently brought down the malaysian flight over

ukraine. as you can imagine aviation officials are taking no chances. there has been a lot of pushback from israel. they are not happy with the economic fallback or a political message that might be sent. the f.a.a.'s decision was said to be out of place. >> we will not award hamas aallowing them to disrupt lives in israel. i expect from the u.s., regardless of the distinction between the political and professional levels, i hope at the end of the day they'll be the ones that resume fights to show also no surrender for terror. >> reporter: the transport minister called on the u.s. to resume the flight, saying the airport is safe protected by the iron dome system that israel has. the f.a.a. to make a decision by midnight on thursday whether to continue the ban on flights or whether to lift it. lisa stark reporting. the airlines and theest rally

government about -- the israeli government will beating to hear -- be waiting to hear what the f.a.a. says about this. >> israel says it looks bad politically and is hurting the county. 30 carriers from the u.s. and asia suspended flights initials and supporters insist that israel is open for business. israel's iron dome defense system may be knocking 90% of the rockets fired from gaza out of the sky. but all it took was one landing a mile from tel aviv's ben gurian airport to ground all international fleets and rattle the country. >> the airline industry will not suffer that much. they fly all over the world. in israel's case, it will be a challenge for them to overcome.

it's too soon to count the cost. it will be worse if the ban and the conflict drags on. before the violence, hotels, restaurants and resorts were on track for a record year. a boost of 17%. now the country's hotel association says in some places occupancy is down to as low as 30", and the timing couldn't be worse, july and august are the peak. season. the national carrier is flying in and out of ben gurion but spects to lose $40 million-$50 million because of conflict. former new york city mayor michael bloomberg staged a high-flying protest against the ban and received a highly choreographed welcome from binyamin netanyahu on the tarmac. >> the truth is what you wanted to demonstrate by coming here is this airport is open.

you can fly in and out of israel. we protect the airport. there's no reason for the mistaken f.a.a. decision to instruct american planes not to come here. >> reporter: israel's officials and supporters call it overreach, but given the ukraine event, travellers say it's understandable. >> translation: after the most recent developments this is a natural rehabilitation after one plane was shot down. of course they are cancelling flights. >> reporter: analysts say if air travel returns to formal soon, aside from tourism, the short-term impact should be small. the bigger issue is one of perception. if the ban lasts long enough to make israel look like a place too dangerous to travel and do business, that is when analysts say it will do serious economical damage. >> depends how long the offensive goes on. phil ittner has been covering the diplomatic

efforts and i asked him about secretary of state john kerry's meeting in israel and the west bank. >> a busy day for secretary of state john kerry, starting in cairo, and moved to tel aviv where he had a meeting with israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu. then he went to the west bank where he sat in ramallah with the head of the palestinian authority, president mahmoud abbas. >> we had a good conversation today about how we can take further steps and we are doing this for one reason. the people in the palestinian territories, the people in israel are all living under the threat or reality of immediate violence. this needs to end for everybody. >> reporter: with the bloodshed that is happening, the priority is to stop what is happening. >> egypt, qatar, turkey is all involved in the talks.

>> it's interesting, all the nations are trying to take a prominent role, it's a role that egypt has been at the forefront of. there's a lot of bad blood between egypt and hamas, not least of which because of situation with the muslim brotherhood, within egypt. turkey would like to see the profile increase, and qatar as well. we know that the head of the political wing of hamas is residing. all of them, fundamentally, would like to see a peace deal to end the fighting. as far as that is concerned, the head of the political wing of hamas, khalid meshaal had this to say about a potential peace deal, but only if certain conditions are met. >> translation: simply the answer is to have agreement on certain demands pending aggression, lifting the siege,

and then we can have an accuracy fire in place. >> john, everyone seems to be talking about a ceasefire for humanitarian means. there's a lot of negotiators in the region, the uk's foreign secretary is there, the un secretary-general is there. there's some talk to headway being made. as we speak, the conflict still does go on. phil ittner, from london. thank you. we mentioned qatar in phil's story, which funds al jazeera network and this network al jazeera america. according to the nations secretary-general ban ki-moon, one child has been killed every hour, two days of fighting in gaza. in all, more than 700 were killed in the fighting. nick schifrin in gaza with this report. >> every day in gaza a mother losses a son.

every day in gaza 140,000 people wake up somewhere that's not home. the displaced. the dead, define daily life. there's little else. for 900 years this greek orthodox church and the mosque next door shared a skyline. today the church courtyard is a sanctuary for those fleeing the bombing. half are children, all are traumatised says the arch bish op. their homes are destroyed. they came out. they saw the people injured or killed, and so they run. they sleep below the chapel in the banquet hall. privacy is impossible. each family sets up its own fort. in the afternoons.

all nine members share a bench. they are from shajaiya, which was nearly destroyed this weekend. the israeli family gave a 5 million warning before bombing the complex. >> i have nothing with me. i've been at the church tore five days. if i waited to take anything for myself, i would be dead. >> this man waited too long. after the family fled, he ignored the warnings to go back for his children's clothes. today his body arrived at the shifa hospital. the black bag of clothes sitting on the gurney. a mother has lost her son, a sister, a brother. and a father needs help to sit. he says his son's death left him with nothing. >> we have no one. we can rely only on god.

>> this man lived and died next to his cousin. he is wrapped in the flag of hamas. >> 200 people carry their bodies through the streets. every day for the last two weeks gaza city has hosted dozens of funerals. and every day there's another reason to wife tears from the eyes. she and 34 members of the family are living in a church courtyard. she hoped it would be 35. >> when my daughter in law ran away from the shelling, she fell and lost her baby. we are palestinians, we have lost everything. >> a few miles away, carried by neighbours, surrounded by family. they buried mcmoud in the hot sun. may god have mercy, they repeat, may god have mercy.

roughly 2,000 soldiers in israel's army are from the united states. two of those americans have been killed in gaza. in jerusalem today, more than 30,000 people showed up for matt stein berg's funeral, a 34-year-old, and volunteered in the military. the other american, a 21-year-old from south padre island texas was buried on monday. now to the netherlands, it's been a day of mourning for vic tells of malaysia airlines flight mh17. thousands stood on sidewalks and bridges, and watched as a procession of cough jens made its way from an airport to a military base. david chater has the story. >> reporter: returning to the netherlands, where the tragic story began. the first of the victims of flight mh17. 30 bodies, all to be identified, carried out of the cargo planes with the dignity and respect

they deserve. scenes in marked contrast to the battlefields of eastern ukraine, where the flight was shot out of the sky. [ "last post" plays ] >> reporter: the dutch royal family and prime minister were in attendance at the airport, as well as more than 1,000 relatives of the victims. their anning wij and grief can om have been sharpened by the fact that none of them knew whether their loved ones were in the coffins before them. it could take the forensic teams weeks or month to identify all of the victims. all of of the victims. it's a gruelling time for the relatives watching the bodies taken to the hurss. and to a military base where the forensic teams will be at work. 193 of the victims are from the

netherlands. flying at half mast. the war is no longer something remote. it reached into homes, across the world. more victims' bodies will be loaded in kharkiv in the east of ukraine for the flight over the next two days. the scale of this tragedy conditions to grow. >> not in terms of human grief. because of the political impact. the calls for justice are growing louder. how much longer can european politicians ignore them. coming up next - like a fish on shore gasping for air, how a witness described a botched execution. plus - send in the national guard. that is how some national republicans want to deal with the crisis. i talk to someone that spent years on the other side of the border.

we have a developing story out of arizona. authorities say it took nearly two hours to execute a convicted murderer. >> there's been a series of botched executions. this is one inmate's attorneys tried to stop. it went ahead and did not go as expected. >> reporter: it normally takes 10 minutes. joseph wood's execution by lethal injection took nearly two hours. >> it was disturbing to watch.

>> reporter: some of the witnesses say the 55-year-old inmate struggles to build as he lay in the death chamber. >> i can like ep it to if you catch a fish and throw it on the shore. >> you can hear a deep, snoring sucking air sound. it went on for an hour and a half. >> woods' attorneys tried to stop it. wood died before the court could act. >> one wonder the if someone would -- wondered if someone would come in and stop the procedures. we looked at each other saying "he's not dying." arizona used a new experimental cocktail fried in ohio, where an inmate struggled for 34 minutes before dying. a stay was denied. his death the latest in a series of botched executions. in april oklahoma stopped the procedure as clayton lockett rose on the kourny, dying

43 minutes later. >> ever since they stopped selling execution drugs. states have tried untested combination of drugs, facing protests. >> the court need to put a stop to using experimental procedures. although concerned about the length, arizona's governor didn't stop the procedures. >> he looked like he was sleeping, snoring and passed away. >> reporter: his victim's family showed little sympathy. >> you don't know what excruciating is. what excruciating is, seeing your dad lying in a pool of blood, seeing your sister in a pool of blood. that is excruciating.

it was called a preventible horror, saying the government should make more executions transparent. we are more on this story now. joining us on the telephone from florence arizona is the tucson correspondent for the associated press, and witnessed the execution. astrid - tell us what you saw? >> thanks for having me. essentially what you described, what i saw, was the inmate executed, and taking deep gasps for almost two hours. it took one hour and 40 minutes for him to stop breathing. >> did you think he was sleep? >> he was sedated. >> so do you - did you get a sense that he was feeling anything? >> no. i mean, i wouldn't be able to

make that assessment. he was completely out and not moving, other than the gasping for the air. >> and, i mean, i heard something like 600 gasps or more much. >> probably would have been more. yes, he was taking gas in intervals of about 5-12 seconds. so you just watched and prison officials - what did they do? >> they also just watched. >> so there was no attempt to change, stop what was going on, right? >> that's correct. >> what has been the rehabilitation in your state -- rehabilitation in your state -- reaction in your state? >> definitely a lot of outrage, because this type of execution typically takes 10 minutes, and it took a bit longer. >> are there people calling for changes in the way arizona puts people to death? >> definitely. i mean, that's an ongoing

battle. it was at the center of the, you know, legal dispute that wood's attorneys had in trying to delay the execution, which is they felt he had a right to more information about the drug cocktail that would be administered to him, but the state refused to reveal that information. >> good to have you on the programme. thank you. now to the immigration crisis. house republican unveiled a plan to send in the national guard and return young migrants to central america faster, similar to texas governor rick perry's proposal. he activated the national guard and will send up to 1,000 troops to the u.s.-mexico boarder. angela is a border reporter who covered the south-west texas border for many years and recently returned from honduras,

and joins us from el paso texas. welcome. . >> thank you. >> you came back from honduras. what did you see? >> well, we went down see what the route cause for the mass migration was. we found poverty, gang violence, and people fleeing to the u.s. for their lives, and children trying to re-un item with -- reunite with parents who are working in the u.s. if unaccompanied children can make it to the border, they'll be given a status. we heard the ward amnesty used several times in the communities. >> you have been coughing the border for -- covering the border for years. how does it compare with other incidents and years when you covered it? >> well, of course, we have seen migration of children for many, many years out of central

america, everything from natural disasters to the gang violence that has been building and children reuniting with family members, but the tens of thousands of children on their own, with the help of cartel smuggling organizations making their way to the border is stunning to see. the overcrowded detention centers. the inability on the part of u.s. authorities to cope with a humanitarian crisis, and struggling to understand is this really an enforcement issue, the children are surrendering to the border patrol, or is it something else. >> what is the greatest need on the border right new? >> i think the greatest need, and even if you talk to the border patrol is the idea they can have help in getting children out of detention centers never designed to hold children or families, and finding a place by law. they are supposed to take central american children and put them in shelters until they

can be reunited with a relative or stay in a shelter or foster care while they move through the course. that's the next big bottle neck. there's not a lot of judges and courts to handle the cases. it's for the court to decide if they are refugees, or the obama administration trying to do mass deportations. >> governor perry sending in the national guard, do you think that helped? >> if you talk to a former border patrol. he was encouraged thinking there would be support. when he found out the national guard basically will do surveillance, he said it will not help. the children are not trying to sneak into the country, they are surrendering, and they are put through the legal system. it's more of an issue of how do you deal with the humanitarian crisis. >> we talked in the programme about the resume ours, that

children unaccompanied can get a piece of paper. hasn't there been enough time and children that have gone back. so the people in honduras get word that it doesn't work. >> in a way, it's a mixed message. central american children have a special status. the cases have to be investigated. children have not been deported in large numbers. a lot are waiting for their cases to be decided. they get permission to stay in the u.s. temporarily, so de facto they are allowed to come and stay with family members. the mass deportation sends a message that the obama administration hope that people will not make the perilous journey. we found that people are thinking twice not because of what is happening in the u.s., but countries along the route,

in particular mexico is cracking down harshly and sending people back. immigrants tell us they are dealing with corruption on the part of mexican immigration, and police officials. they are afraid to come through mexico. >> will you talk about the ring, how massive it is and how it connected with central america. >> the smuggling ring. transnational criminal organizations, drug cartels that move drugs and human cargo up through central america with the help of gang members all the way to the u.s. border, and there's lots of money to be made, and the organizations were promoting amnesty and offering family plans if you send more people, a mother and a child giving a discount or multiple tries. they are very effective. they make a lot of money.

people resort to smugglers. coming through the areas without a smuggler, you risk being killed by the gang members or the cartel members. >> thank you for being on the programme tonight. good to see you. >> thank you. next - poverty in america. you may be surprised to here where it is on the rise. plus, something you don't see often - former prison inmate playing with stuffed animals, and it could help keep them out of

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>> those stories and more in a moment. first paul beban has the top stories. secretary of state john kerry was in the middle east pushing for a humanitarian truce. he met with leaders in the west bank. meanwhile a threat of launching war crimes investigations. more than 30 israelis have been killed, more than 700 palestinians. f.a.a. extended a ban on travel to and from tel aviv, a day after a rocket landed near the airport there. israel cid sized the move. a number of european and aish airlines suspended the service. >> it's been a day of mourning for victims. thousands of people stood slendly watching as the

profession of kaz gets made its way to an airport. 40 coffins arrived in the netherlands. bodies will be identified. a week later investigators don't have access. many have been recovered. >> thank you very much. america's great recession caused poverty rates and decline. the economic downturn is having an effect in the suburbs. >> reporter: the idyllic suburbs displayed the calm. a stark reality is hidden. >> a greatest thing surprising those in suburbia is if they drive a huge block over, they'd see a different view of the world. the number of suburban residents

living under the poverty line has grown a staggering 159% offer the past decade. >> more people coming to us, people that have never experienced poverty, who don't know what to do. >> kay and chris work at must ministries, one of a handful of charities serving the poor in the suburbs of atlanta. they offer food, shelter and employment service and a summer lunch programme for children in need. groups like must struggled to keep up with demand for their service, unlike their counterparts in the cities, who service the urban poor of the the safety net in the suburbs which is patchy and thin is at a breaking point. >> our programme has gone 37% over the last 14 years. from 97,000 meals to 247 last year. honestly, we are scratching the

service. >> nearly every metropolitan area, and tech centers saw major increases in their suburban poor, rising 65% nationwide. more than twice the pace of growth in cities. >> more than 90% of foreclosures happened. middle age jobs were lost much. >> we are seeing the living wage for a family of two with two children at $17 an hour. there's not a lot of jobs paying $17 an hour. >> beth works in employment services at must, and says most of her clientele are older workers like ken. a truck driver for 20 years, who fell out of work when his company shut down. fortunately he got a full-time job at a coca-cola plant, earning $11 an hour. he is living pay check to pay check, hoping to return to a

middle class lifestyle soon. >> i like the company i work for. i think i got a good chance of moving up. >> for many middle class americans, part-time work replaced full-time jobs. that can mean erratic unpredictable schedules. some in congress are pushing for legislation to protect part-time workers. welcome kerry, from the retail action project. why do part-time workers need application. >> increasingly the growth industries employ large amount of part time workers, restaurants, retail - and employees are cutting costs by skimming hours and pushing what they can't predict on to workers. >> what are the common practices, and what is the impact on the workers? >> what is happening is employers are expecting workers to be available 24/7.

workers are waiting by the phone, where they are required to call in two hours before for on-call shifts with no guarantees of work. in sectors like retail, employing one in nine americans, you have a massive unproductive workforce that is unable to go to school, get a second job and get ahead. >> so actually some employees can send people home from work in the middle of the day and not pay them for the rest of the time they were scheduled to work. >> yes. and in industries like catering or restaurants, where workers came this with pressed uniforms and an employer decides i accidently scheduled too many people, someone can travel, cover childcare, report to work, and the employer can say "well, we don't need you today", and they are september home without pay. >> you would say this is a result of the resellings - yes,

in part or not. >> i think it's nothing to do with the recession much these trends have been going on for a long time. exacerbated by the fact that the service sector is going. i can hear some in the audience saying "look, they have a job", this is the - timing are tough. they are earning a living, they are getting work, this is it what happens when you have part-type of work. what do -- part-time work. what do you say to that. the truth is people don't have work. these practices fuel unemployment. because the schedule is so unpredictable, workers don't hold on to the works, the company engages in practices where it hires cyclicly. workers are not able to increase earning potential and move up the career ladder. the trends are increasing in equality. >> should employers have the flexibility to schedule people when they want them? >> there needs to be guidelines. we serve to have some notice of

how much and when we are working so we can take care of our families and go to school, right. all the things that people say you need to do to become - to join the middle class. it's not possible for a large number of workers. >> what about the legislation in congress, and what would to do? >> it's exciting. it's breakthrough legislation promoting fundamental standards on the hours that we work. representative george miller on the house side, and elizabeth warren on the senate side are producing the bills. and this legislation gives working erls predictable schedules, input and baseline applications when there's unpredictability. given the gridlock in washington, do you really think this is a legislation that has a chance to pass. >> what is exciting about the federal legislation is there's a growing movement for a fair work week. next week there'll be a break

through bill introduced in san francisco. that would expand applications. what the federal bill does is legitimize a host of new policy solutions, that we can pass in our states. >> thank you for being with us. >> general motors says it's recalling more vehicles, most because of faulty seats. more than 800 cars and trucks are affected. g.m. returned a record number of people. almost 30 million in all. the car-makers have been reviewing safety standards after it emerged that they had not addressed a deadly switch problem. >> u.s. department of transportation is going for an overhaul of standards after a series of high-profile accidents. library casey is in -- libby casey is in washington. >> the obama administration is responding to a series of accidents, the most disastrous

in canada where 47 died in a massive fireball. a train rolled down tracks, carrying crude oil, derailing and exploding in the middle of this night. as a response the obama administration is suggesting is series of changers to tighten up regulations, including a slower speed on the tradition, and better brakes for the trains and new design for the cars that carry fuel. if cars cannot be upgraded they'd be faced out over the next two years. these are proposal. it's a comment period during which people would weigh in. anthony foxx says he'll push hard to make sure it happened. >> i would like to see this happen yesterday. we have to move through the process, informed by what we hear from industry. the bottom line is we're going

to be clear that we need a new world order, and we'll use the comment period to inform what we do as a final rule. there will be a final rule. we will push as hard as we can to get the new world order established. >> the oil business is booming because of the bok and shale formation, it has to get to market somehow, and a lot is going by rail. the infrastructure is ageing. not just the tracks, but the cars. and demand is exceeding the technology, it's expensive to replace. there's push back. rail associations say they are concerned, they can't make the upgrades. the american petroleum institute is pushing back against a report saying that the bok and reserves are more volatile than crude oil. over the two months, user groups

can weigh in. community groups concerned about oil aring rolling through the towns. saying that two years is not fast enough. that's libby casey in washington. >> the head of the government lab involved in the anthrax scare stepped down. michael farro had been with the agency since 2009. last month dozens of c.d.c. workers may have been exposed, and there's no reports of infection. a medical procedure to protect women from cancer may be putting them at risk. according to columbia university, a device used could spread uterine cancer. the study supports a government safety that concluded using that device is risky, and joining us to talk about this is dr debbie from n.y.u.'s school of

medicine. good to see you. thank you for being with us. >> what is this device, what does it mean. >> the device is called a more solator, you are cutting up fibroids, to remove them from the person's body. the idea here, a fine roid is an abnormal growth that a woman can get. it can cause symptoms causing pelvic pain, for large growth in the uterus, they might want to remove the growth, and there are different ways to remove it. most of the time you want to get it out through a small incision. basically it breaks down the f.b.i. roid and the utterous to move it. it's like breaking down the furniture a little bit. >> how is it spreading the cancer? >> any time you break something done, you can get debris, there's a lot of shreds and chards. when they break the f.b.i. roid

pieces can fall into the belly and the addomen. if one contains a cancer, it can later grow in the belly. is it an indication it's getting into the bloodstream. >> it's not necessarily in the bloodstream, but it's in the abdomen. it's hard to tell. with ganser, we usually find out about cancer when it reaches a certain size or causes problems. a lot of us might have cancer cells in our body, but our immune system takes care of them. if they are left there, a person may not realise until is grows to a certain size and causes problems. >> what do you tell patients, and what should they do if they have fibroids. >> now that we know about the research, and before, women who have the procedure down, using a morse olator should know about

the risks. they are higher for people above age 50. they can make a decision knowing the facts. some argue that the device should be... >> eliminated. >> yes. >> does that mean you'd have a large incision. >> yes. you might have a larger incision because you get the f.b.i. roid out while breaking it down. let's say you are painting in your apartment. you may put down plastic to catch of the debris. you can do the same thing in the belly, you can insert a plastic bag with the device to catch the remainder of the fine roid, the break-down products. you might take care of the spread. we have to advance the technology. do you expect new guide lines for doctors? >> i think there'll be new guidelines about the use of a device. they are debating whether to continue its u restrict or ban it. patients who had the procedure

down done, they may want to follow up with doctors to follow up whether there's anything else to be looked at. ex-convicts in oregon are going back to school, taking classes on how to be better parents. allen schauffler has that story. >> got it. >> there you go. this happy family playground was not always so happy. >> i was at the bar getting drunk or once i fell back into my addiction, i was never there. >> on parole after serving two years on drug charges, michelle went through training to become a better mum. >> they are the ones... >> the 3-month programme targets families split by crime and incarceration, teaching basic parenting skills, most of the people in here never learn the. >> so far more than 5,000 prisoners and parolees have been

through the voluntary parenting inside-out training course. we went into prison to meet graduates on the inside. >> how are you doing? i'm alan. >> this father of 2000 daughters gets out in september. >> it was a reminder every day, every time i went to the class that hey, you're a father. and you have two people that need you, they love you. >> to learn responsibility, inmates in the class carry a teddy bear everywhere they go for a month. >> you become attached. >> you say you bonded with your bear? >> yes, very much so. >> the programme appears to get results. a five year study by the oregon social learning center shows women 48% less likely to get resafetied than non- -- rearrested than non-graduates. men, 27%. >> are you a little scared of what is ahead. >> of course. it's been a long time. i know there's a lot to fix and

try to do better. i'm ready for it. >> michelle newell says what started in the classroom is a life-time job. >> the devastation that i caused, and the things my kids had to see and go through - i can never take any of that back. what i can do today is change it each and every day and make sure they never ever have to go through that again. >> so far her hard work in the course is getting good grades. >> she is awesome. the coolest mum ever. >> from the only people that really count. coming up next - a new perspective on world events seen from space.

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good evening, i'm meteorologist kevin corriveau. we are looking at stormy places across the country. first i appear to the north-east where thunder storms moved to every state. we have seen a bit of wind damage with these, and with the wind damages, the yellow dots that you see, we have seen tree limbs down, as well as car lines down across the region, major airports had delays. we'll see problems across parts of texas, and a line of thunder storms pushing through. that is causing wind damage. with the storms we are seeing flooding. that will be up towards parts of the arkansas. tomorrow we'll focus to north

dakota and sact -- south dakota. we'll see cooler weather, drier weather. severe weather will make its way towards chicago, and by the time we get to saturday, it's going to be the ohio river valley seeing most of the severe weather. to the north-west the temperatures will make their way up, we'll see the threat of fire danger across the region. down to the south-west. we'll see a few showers there. that's a look at your weather. the news is coming up after this.

in new york six people have been charged in a global cyber crime bust. they hacked many customers account and used many to buy a million dollars of tickets to shows and sporting events, the company said the thieves used the names and passwords, stealing them through other websites and malware. and a computer glitch is denying

passports. the glitch could slow the process of obtaining u.s. travel documents for millions of people. a spokesman said the department would try to fix that problem. astronauts from the international space station are taking incredible pictures. fascinating. it's so complex n.a.s.a. needed help identifying the photos. jacob ward explains. >> reporter: the view from the international space station is unbelievable, as you can imagine. the restaurants on board spend hours photographing the world from up there. those who are camera nerds will be interested to know they use a 500 nickon, with a choice of 15 fancy lenses to take shots of the earth as it goes by at 17,000 miles underneath them. there's software that can identify the cities that they

photograph, but the software cannot tell the difference between the stars and moon and lights. so a group of spanish astro physicists began a process in which anyone with a web connection can examine and identify a million photographs that can be shot. the point is to identify a huge amount of wasted energy and light pollution that cities put out. the light pollution is not an irritation to those of us that look at the night sky. it scrambles the biological image. it disorients birds, baths and fish. it's silly, but insects die by exhaustion. here are a few of the cities that have been identified. first, have a look at new delhi in india, seeing a 5% increase in nights and lights.

here is bismark, holding its own against the darkness, being only 30 square miles in total. here is hong kong, where one district alone puts out 1,200 more light. the only major city is pyongyang, north korea, which is a big blanks dark spot as compared to korea below it. it's because the country is so is rated. it doesn't have the resources it keep the lights on. today we got a new look from space at a different form of wasted energy. an astronaut mosted this photograph of gaza and israel from 20 r5 miles up -- 205 miles up. he says from space it's possible to see rocket fire explosions

much the view from space has given human being perspective. that view is clear, tragic and more revealing than ever. >> jake ward reporting from san francisco. that's the news cast. thanks for watching. headlines next with paul beban. i'm john seigenthaler, i'll see you back here tomorrow night at 8 o'clock eastern, and 11 o'clock eastern. see you then.

welcome to al jazeera america i'm paul beban, here are the top stories. diplomats are trying to broker a humanitarian truce between gaza and israel. secretary of state john kerry met with israeli and palestinian leaders today. the head of hamas said a ceasefire was not an option unless israel opens gaza's borders which have been closed for more than seven years.

the cabinet is meeting tomorrow to discuss a possible expansion of the offensive in gaza. washington will review whether to allow u.s. carriers to resume flights at the biggest airport. the f.a.a. extended its ban. israel says that airport is a day after a rocket struck about a mile away. some of the bodies of the victims of malaysian flight mh17 were returned to the netherlands. they were sent to a dutch military base. 40 of the 200 were returned. the hope is to identify them over the next several days. the governor is ordering a review of the state execution process after a death row inmate took two hours to die. joseph wood was gasping and snorting while being put to death. the execution began around 2:00 pm. he was pronounced dead

around 4:00 p.m. woods was on death row for murdering four people in 1989. those are the headlines. "america tonight" with julie chen is next. >> on "america tonight": [ bugel sounds ] >> united by an unspeakable horror. netherlands hofns victims of the downed flight as the answers are held up. due to further conflict on ukraine's border. a call to bring back our girls. international call hasn't been enough. what